The master of the house assumed an uneasy
_expression_.
She slipped from his embrace to fall at his
feet.
Julien, trembling with fear of a disclosure,
pleaded illness andmanaged to make himself believed.
The blue sofa was the centre of the group,as in
winter.
Their truecharacter was only now beginning to
outline itself before his eyes.
Atlength the door opened, his name was
called.
Dress in the style of the year before
last.
That is what you shall learn, Sir, when I think fit
to tell you. The master of the house assumed an uneasy _expression_.
This is strange,thought Julien, no one is announced
in this room. His comingwas a signal for the opening of the discussion.
For Julien, sleep would have meant
happiness.
On the journey,however, you will dress as usual.
And yet when it comes to action, one has to trust somebody. Three seconds later the
ladder was under the lime alley, andMathildes honour was saved. Yes, it seems that
your thoughts were far away.
Injudging the newcomer, Julien was restricted to
what he could learnfrom his features and dress.
See what your servant sends you, she said in
audible tones, it isthe sign of eternal obedience.
How lifeless they seem to me whencompared with him,
all copies of each other.
As for Julien, the emotions of his heart were those
of a boy ofsixteen. It appears that she loved me for a week or ten days,and I shall
love her all my life. Julien feltthat it would have been more natural to call him
the gentleman withthe waistcoats. To enter the house from the garden was by no means
easy. To avoid drawing attention to himself he began to point
thequills.
Pride has doubtless quenched his love, she said
toherself. To enter the house from the garden was by no means easy. He made no
further attempt, that evening, to approach theblue sofa to which Mathilde was
faithful.
He triedto escape, Mademoiselle de La Mole held him
by the arm with a gestureof authority.